This should be pretty exciting and congrats on making this decison.
’m interested in the ways that this distancing can contribute to increasing a diversity of perspectives. How are you intending to ensure this happens?
edit:I don’t think we have explicit plans to try and increase the diversity of perspectives represented in grantmaking. I don’t think we’ll be intentionally optimising against open Phil’s perspective, but I do think we’ll make some decisions differently to what they’d do when looking at similar grants.
I think we’re really more about trying to figure out which grants seem most cost-effective according to the fund’s worldview (and ideally communicating that worldview to donors), as opposed to hedging our beliefs well over the community’s beliefs or something.
I do think the funds already represent various perspectives (e.g. there is a decent amount of disgreement on the ltff over which alignment agendas seem promising) and as I’m hiring more fund managers the make up of worldviews is something I’ll bear in mind (though I’m mostly looking for strong grantmaking skills and good epistemics).
Thanks Caleb for you reply!
One wuick thing, if your not explicitly aiming to increase the diversity of perspectives, it feels a little (unintentionally) misleading to say as the first thing this could help with “Increase the diversity of perspectives in the funding ecosystem.”
Whilst I know this is technically not the same as aiming to do that, the post strongly implies that you are aiming to do that (and it does seem you are in fact aiming to do that a bit!)
I think this is fair; I removed the first line from my comment above where I say we’re not explicitly trying to increase diversity. I think I misinterpreted your original question, and I wanted to clarify what I mean by increasing diversity of perspectives in grantmaking—I’ll try to give a proper answer to your original question later with more detail after thinking about it a bit more.
This should be pretty exciting and congrats on making this decison. ’m interested in the ways that this distancing can contribute to increasing a diversity of perspectives. How are you intending to ensure this happens?
edit:
I don’t think we have explicit plans to try and increase the diversity of perspectives represented in grantmaking.I don’t think we’ll be intentionally optimising against open Phil’s perspective, but I do think we’ll make some decisions differently to what they’d do when looking at similar grants.I think we’re really more about trying to figure out which grants seem most cost-effective according to the fund’s worldview (and ideally communicating that worldview to donors), as opposed to hedging our beliefs well over the community’s beliefs or something.
I do think the funds already represent various perspectives (e.g. there is a decent amount of disgreement on the ltff over which alignment agendas seem promising) and as I’m hiring more fund managers the make up of worldviews is something I’ll bear in mind (though I’m mostly looking for strong grantmaking skills and good epistemics).
Thanks Caleb for you reply! One wuick thing, if your not explicitly aiming to increase the diversity of perspectives, it feels a little (unintentionally) misleading to say as the first thing this could help with “Increase the diversity of perspectives in the funding ecosystem.” Whilst I know this is technically not the same as aiming to do that, the post strongly implies that you are aiming to do that (and it does seem you are in fact aiming to do that a bit!)
I think this is fair; I removed the first line from my comment above where I say we’re not explicitly trying to increase diversity. I think I misinterpreted your original question, and I wanted to clarify what I mean by increasing diversity of perspectives in grantmaking—I’ll try to give a proper answer to your original question later with more detail after thinking about it a bit more.